What is the Clinical Research Infrastructure Initiative (CRII)?
Under a competitive process managed by the Wellcome Trust, the following funding partners collectively provided £84 million of new funding under the Clinical Research Infrastructure Initiative: Wellcome Trust, Wolfson Foundation, British Health Foundation, Cancer Research UK, the Medical Research Council, the Health Deprtments in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales and the Health Research Board of Ireland. This initiative built on the original five Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facilities and was created to provide significant new investment for clinical research infrastructure. Priority areas targeted by the scheme included clinical research facilities, enabling technologies (imaging, proteomics, genomics, diagnostics, devices), capacity for early medicinal chemistry and pharmaceutical support. The initiative awarded funds to develop and strengthen UK clinical research facilities in Belfast, Birmingham, Cambridge, Edinburgh, The Institute of Cancer Research, Imperial Coll
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